By Dallas Franklin
3rd grade, El Dorado County
Illustrated by Woodland High School

Hi, I'm Sue the Seed. I'm in the ground at Jo's farm with my family. Hey, what is tickling me? Oh, it's just worms. I feel something wet. Oh it's just Farmer Jo watering me. Those worms help me by keeping the soil healthy.

I was planted in March so I'm a spring seed. I could have been a winter seed, but I guess not. I can't wait until I sprout to see the world? What is that light? Oh, it's the sun. This is great. I had just one leaf, but it split. Then I got more and more leaves and they did the same thing. Now I have three heads of seeds. Each head has twenty seeds on it. It's been five months now and I'm brown.

Wait, that means aaaaaaahhh tractor! I am cut by the big blade on the tractor and cut away from my Nodal roots and Seminal roots too. I'm now at the mill. The miller is grinding me into flour. I'm light and fluffy. The miller put me in a big, fat bag of flour. Then I was put in a truck with lots of other flour bags. I hope I'm in something sweet because I am such a little sweetie. Ha, ha, ha!

Boy have I changed since I was at Jo's farm. Guess what! I'm at the store now! I am in the ninth row on the baking shelf. I hope I get picked soon because I don't want to sit here forever. Gee that didn't take long, I'm already on the conveyor belt. Whoa, I'm in a car now. I'm going to a home!

Aaaaaaahhh, I'm falling! I saw the recipe and it said sugar, flour, butter and egg, mix bake and eat. That's what happened to me. I'm in a cookie. I could have been cereal, cake, bread, crackers or pie. Even noodles have wheat. Isn't that amazing? But I'm in cookies I guess. Halloween cookies, of course, with sprinkles. I have black, red and orange sprinkles. I'm glad that I am wheat because that is a big thing in everybody's life.